A `biomultimeter` to measure RNA and protein production in real-time
(PHYSorg.com Biology)

Builders of genetic circuits face the same quandary as builders of digital circuits: testing their designs. Yet unlike bioengineers, engineers have a simple and universal testing tool-the multimeter-that they can touch to their circuit to measure its performance. `There`s nothing remotely like this in bio,` says Peter Carr, a synthetic biologist in MIT Lincoln Laboratory`s Bioengineering Systems and Technologies Group.